The ultimate italian coachbuilder site
The ultimate italian coachbuilder site
If there’s one thing we love about Alfa Romeo, it’s their ability to mix passion with engineering madness. In the 1960s, the brand wasn’t just about making gorgeous road cars; they were throwing everything they had into motorsport innovation. And out of this feverish creativity came the Scarabeo, a car that made people stop and say, “Wait… where are the doors?”
An elegant convertible, built in 1949 on the popular Fiat 1100 B chassis by Stabilimenti Farina in very few speciments, remains the emblem of this extraordinary coachbuilding of cars in the early 1950s. The resemblance to Ferrari’s 166 Inter is surprising, which let to controversy between Giovanni Farina and Enzo Ferrari.
Paul Breuer was born in Verviers in 1946 where he lived with his family until the age of twenty. A summer internship in Italy opened him the gate to an outstanding car design career in the most important design centers of the world. We want to thank Paul for this interessting chat , in which we go back through his career.
Designer Sergio Sartorelli was born in Alessandria in 1928; he took the degree in Mechanical Engineering at the “Politecnico” of Turin and soon became interested in cars.
During the 1950s, Marbon-Chemical in the United States pioneered the development of ABS plastic (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene). This particular plastic, known by the trade name Cycolac,…
